MSNBC wonders: Is it disrespectful to call Obama “Obama”?

posted at 8:51 pm on January 11, 2013 by Allahpundit

Via Mediaite, manufactured-grievance theater for the progressive faithful. Kornacki can be an insightful writer so I assume his interest in this moronic subject is mainly to fill airtime during a slow news week, as an empty validation of the “sensitivities” of MSNBC’s audience. The real offender is Krystal Ball chiming in with her theory that Obama’s somehow been uniquely disrespected as president. Ask Bill Clinton or George Bush about that. If I recall lefty blogging circa 2006 correctly, Dubya was some sort of chimpanzee who’d evolved into Hitler. If you ever watched five minutes of Olbermann, you know how “respected” the president was on this network; if you’ve watched five minutes of Matthews or O’Donnell or Martin Bashir, you know how respected President Romney would have been. (Here’s a clue.) Strong partisans have been loathing presidents from the other party since forever, and they reliably develop amnesia afterward about just how much loathing there was. If calling Bush “Bush” is okay but calling Obama “Obama” isn’t, then you’re copping to a double standard for Bambi. And it’s one that’ll do him and other minority politicians who deserve equal treatment from voters more harm than good long-term.

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Just a few of the things the candidates and their campaigns said about their opponents in the Presidential election of 1800:

“John Adams is a blind, bald, crippled, toothless man, who secretly wants to start a war with France. When he’s not busy importing mistresses from Europe, he’s trying to marry one of his sons to a daughter of King George III.”

“John Adams is a hideous, hermaphroditical character with neither the force and firmness of a man, nor the gentleness and sensibility of a woman.”

“[If Thomas Jefferson is elected], murder, robbery, rape, adultery and incest will be openly taught and practiced, the air will be rent with the cries of the distressed, the soil will be soaked with blood and the nation black with crimes. Are you prepared to see your dwellings in flames? Female chastity violated? Children writhing on the pike?”

“Jefferson is the son of a half-breed Indian squaw raised on hoe-cakes.”

“[Jefferson is] a mean-spirited, low-lived fellow, the son of a half-breed Indian squaw, sired by a Virginia mulatto father.”

“Hamilton is a Creole b@stard brat of a Scotch pedlar.”

Adams was labeled a fool, a hypocrite, a criminal, and a tyrant, while Jefferson was branded a weakling, an atheist, a libertine, and a coward.

Even Martha Washington got in on the act. She told clergymen that Jefferson was “one of the most detestable of mankind” and to “preach” it.

The real offender is Krystal Ball chiming in with her theory that Obama’s somehow been uniquely disrespected as president.

[If Thomas Jefferson is elected], murder, robbery, rape, adultery and incest will be openly taught and practiced, the air will be rent with the cries of the distressed, the soil will be soaked with blood and the nation black with crimes. Are you prepared to see your dwellings in flames? Female chastity violated? Children writhing on the pike?”

If Obama has been uniquely disrespected as a president it’s because he has uniquely disrespected his office. I wish it were due to his race, because if it were then that would mean he would be doing a decent job, otherwise. I wish all I could say is that the d*ckhead has been a disappointment, but I can say so much, much more…